A LIVELY COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3671, 28 July 1927, Page 3

A LIVELY COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

Hawera, July 27. , “The actions of defendant warrant a medical examination as to his mental condition,” said the Magistrate, Mr Barton, when the escapades of a young commercial traveller, Kenneth Victor Gibson, were related to the Court this morning. The police stated that accused bought some furniture in Wellington on Thursday, paying a deposit of £3 10/-. Immediately he took the furniture to a firm of auctioneers and sold it for £35. With this money he paid £3O deposit on a secondhand ear, and left Wellington in the car on Friday, accompanied by a woman who had'been, previously convicted of theft. He spent the night at Shannon, arriving a't Hawera on Saturday. He came under the notice of the police on Sunday when he tried to buy a bottle of wine from an hotel. Later he went to New Plymouth in company with a young girl, who at present is in the charge of the probation officer. Gibson also bought benzine on credit at Hawera, Inglewood, and New Plymouth. Accused was fined £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment on a charge of being on licensed premise unlawfully, and £1 in default seven days’ imprisonment for failing to produce, a car driver’s license. A charge of being an idle and disorderly person was dismissed. An application for the suppression of his name was refused.